Job Description:

• 1) Sets up, adjusts, and maintains machines used to wind, tape, form, strip, or connect wire for electrical coils, using setup charts and handtools: Changes fixtures in automatic coil-winding machines and core-insulating machines, replaces wire supply, and threads wire or insulating paper through tension devices to accommodate different size coils and windings.

• 2) Turns screws and knobs to adjust settings of electrical switches and counters in automatic armature-and-field-coil-winding machines, using wrenches and screwdriver.

• 3) Tightens bolts to align pulleys and adjust belt tension.

• 4) Removes winding jaws from automatic winding machines and holds against powered buffing wheel to smooth surfaces, using lapping compound.

• 5) Changes forming dies and holding devices in coil forming presses and changes cutting blades in wire-stripping machine to accommodate different sizes of wire.

• 6) Replaces defective parts.

• 7) Operates power grinder to make specialty tools used in winding department, such as picks, winding hooks, and scrapers.